Andrew, you might like to check out my ray-traced fractals made from infinite reflections inside a stack of mirrored spheres. I think these pictures show something impossible to reproduce in the real world, because of the perturbation introduced by a real camera. This seems related to the uncertainty principle, I guess.... The virtual camera overcomes this obstacle. Best regards, Miguel Fliguer . Buenos Aires, Argentina Franktal Gallery - http://www.geocities.com/franktal2002
From: "Andrew Coppin" <orphi69@hotmail.com> <snip> I've come up with the "hall of mirrors" analogy. Have you ever been to a department store where they have mirrors on the columns supporting the roof? If you stand between two columns (assuming both have mirrors), you can see an infinite number of reflections of yourself! But, of course, the mirrors are always slightly greenish (never any other colou... mmm....) and never completely flat.
The Julia sets are the same. It seems that the infinite progression of spirals/forks/dust are mirror images of one single such feature.
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